Quotes By Paul Mccartney

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.